Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation and the Demographic Deficit of Women in India

Differences in relative female employment by soil texture are used to explain the heterogeneous deficit of female children across districts within India. Soil texture varies exogenously and determines the depth of land tillage. Deep tillage, possib...

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Main Author: Carranza, Eliana
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
FAO
SEX
TEA
WAR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/02/20302408/soil-endowments-female-labor-force-participation-demographic-deficit-women-india
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20521